Academic novels

[Henry M]

A-and how about The Goldbug Variations? A good'un! Genetics, music, 
computer and library sci.

> Date:          Thu, 06 Feb 97 12:44:58 EST
> From:          John Boylan <AP201165 at BROWNVM.brown.edu>
> Subject:       Academic novels
> To:            pynchon-l at waste.org

>   Besides 'Pale Fire', a great novel, Nabokov also wrote 'Pnin', a bril-
> liant one, also set in a university (Cornewellian). Poignant and very
> funny.
> 
>    Hey, and don't forget John Barth's 'Giles Goat Boy', the academic
> novel to end all academic novels, in which the university is the
> universe.
> 
> 

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